As much as one would like, but often, when we get to know something new, we experience difficulties in mastering it. So with the program "Bandicam." If you suddenly wanted to shoot a video from your monitor, then most likely you will download this utility. On the Internet, it is incredibly popular. But, without a doubt, you will not understand everything at once in it, and you will have difficulties in mastering it. This article will discuss how to use the Bandicam. It will tell you how to configure all the possible parameters so that, based on the result, the video you shot is the way you represented it.
Where to download the program
Before the story of how to use the "Bandicam", it is worth telling where to download it. By entering the appropriate query into any search engine, you will see hundreds of pages on which you can download. However, do not click on the first link that appears, as it may contain a virus that you can easily bring to your computer after installing the program.
"Bandits" need to be downloaded exclusively from the official website of developers. By doing so, you guarantee yourself that malicious software will not get onto your computer and cannot significantly harm it.
Why does infection happen? Since everyone can download the program, an attacker is capable of it. Only unlike a respectable user, he will change the code by placing a virus in it, after which he will put the already modified program to another source, respectively, unreliable. After we figured out where to download the utility, we can proceed to how to use the Bandicam.
Setting up a program for recording video and sound
In order for your videos shot in the program to be of high quality, before using the Bandicam, you must configure the video. The benefit of the parameters is not so much that they disappear for the whole day. Using our instructions, you can make all the settings in minutes.
Since the program is most often used to record video games, the setting presented below will focus on this parameter. So, to properly configure the video, you need:
- On the main page, go to the FPS tab.
- First check the box next to "Set restriction."
- Enter in the box next to "30-60" FPS.
- In the "FPS Overlay" column, check the box next to "Screen Position".
- Select the location where the FPS indicator will be displayed.
On the FPS tab, we are done, now go to the "Video". There you need:
- Enter the settings by clicking the button of the same name in the "Record" column.
- In the "Sound" tab, check the box next to "Sound recording."
- In the field "Main device" select Win * Sound (WASAPI) (instead of an asterisk there will be a number 7 or 8, depending on the version of Windows).
- Click OK.
These manipulations will allow you to record video and sound in parallel with. In general, all the settings related to video recording have been made, but not everything is told about how to use the Bandicam in the game.
Setting up the program to improve the quality of video and sound
This paragraph of the article can be skipped right away by those people who have weak computers, since improving the quality of sound and video directly affects the resources consumed. If the PC settings are low, then the recording will only get worse. In general, the setup is very simple, as you might guess. You only need to unscrew the corresponding parameters to the maximum.
So you need to:
- On the "Video" tab, enter the settings in the "Format" column.
- In the "File format" box, check AVI.
- In the "Video" field, set: size, full size, quality - 100, FPS - 60.
- In the "Sound" field, set the maximum parameters for bitrate and frequency.
That's all, it remains only to talk about how to start recording to start shooting.
Start shooting
To start recording a game, on the main page of the program, in the "Video" tab, check the box next to "Start / Stop - hotkey" and define a key for this parameter. Now you need to enter the game and press the button you selected, after which recording will begin. You can determine this by changing the color of the FPS indicator - it will turn red. To stop recording, press the same key.
Now you know how to use the Bandicam correctly. We hope that this article helped you understand the program.